Bobbie Gentry - Son Of A Preacher Man Lyrics

I was just a young boy I just got out of a children's home in New Mexico and I just made it to Dallas Texas in 1969
I REMEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damm that is pure country

beautiful

I am the son of a preacher 🙏🏼💫

Her version more down home. No disrespect to anybody else.

I'm a big Bobby Gentry fan, but she's not feeling the soul in this song.

I love Bobbie Gentry so much, However, Dusty Springfield version of this song is better

If you actually want a country version of the song you should go for Peggy Little's https://youtu.be/aYXMyULByuw this is however much better than that, and sits with the classic versions recorded by Dusty and Aretha.

Excellent

Best version of this song ever! Portuguese descent? How cool is that?

Terrific photograph. Captures the style at the time, attitude, right down to the seductive fingers.

She is truly great! What a great voice!
I love the way Bobby Centry says "walk'in". I would have liked to go walk'in with Bobby.

still looks hot

She is truly great! What a great voice!
She's the only one who can do justice to Dusty Springfield.

I USE TO LISTEN TO THIS SONG EVERY MORNING ON AM RADIO WHILE I WAS IN THE SHOWER BEFORE SCHOOL

GREAT SONG & GREAT BOBBIE GENTRY THANK YOU !!!
Bobbie is my girl on this tune.

GREAT SONG & GREAT BOBBIE GENTRY THANK YOU !!!
I personally love the rhythm section on this number
talented lady (a real looker too!)

I love this woman.

What a voice!!! So much talent!!!

I like this one. Dusty's version is still very powerful to me.

GREAT SONG & GREAT BOBBIE GENTRY THANK YOU !!!

Smart. Studied philosophy at UCLA.

What a talent, what an incredibly DESIRABLE woman. Would love to meet her.

Sexy goals 4 sure!

What got thrown off the Tallahatchie Bridge?

Beautiful southern woman.

Sheesh, I never realized Bobby Gentry was so darn P-r-e-t-t-y!

Fantastic voice, great looks but, most of all, amazing songwriter... funny she didn't make it bigger O^O I guess her 1967 n°1 hit kinda killed her career.

I'm in White Trash heaven listen' to this!

Thanks again for playing because this version is still the best and still best music today

Wicked.

A little too fast.

HELLLO GLENNNNNNNNNNCAMBLE.. GAMBLE RODGERS...

What a great head of hair!

marvelous

Not bad for being a Chickasaw Native American. One of my favorite female singers.

What a voice. 😍😍😍. I was 9 when “Ode” come out. I’ve been in love since. This song came on the radio in the car 30 time as we drove to Pittsburgh. I thought she was saying “cha cha ridge”. 😊

When I was a kid I used to think Creedence Clearwater Revival was saying "There's a bathroom on the Right" instead of "There's a Bad Moon On the Rise". Lol!

Had a crush on her since i was 10 yrs old.

It is too bad that Miss Gentry has been dumped in the ONE HIT WONDER box. She did some great music !! She did the original "Fancy" that Reba McIntire later revived. She does a good version of this tune along with Dusty & Aretha (RIP!) & the Honey Cone.

Those drums aren't country...that beat is out of New Orleans....

Damn still gives me goosebumps!

Been listening to her since I was 11.

scotts michael douglas
jody does have flatulence
jackies pride and joy

mr rogers talk
walking to the beach trojans
ruthie and billy (doetie)

She is truly great! What a great voice!

Photo of Bobbie on that bench in London in 1968 when she recorded her TV show for the BBC. Bobbie was multi- talented. She could sing, write songs, play guitar- choreograph and dance, design clothes and was one of the few women on the planet that could wear a red trouser suit and get away with it. She deserves the adjective AWESOME!

218 clueless people.

I like Dusty Springfield’s instrumentation

thats the next best version of that song

Is she Zhavia's mom on 'THE FOUR?'

She was so pretty. Her voice was like velvet. :)

How can there even be any thumbs down on this!!! Getting to my topic - My 9 year old girl is getting ready for a talent show. She will be the only one on stage for one song. This song might be great if she were 15 but I would like some suggestions of songs by female artists that are not too esoteric and are not too suggestive. Every song is either a love song or a breakup song. Were are going over some suggestions I have and unfortunately the stuff she does the best is not going to work at a 4th grade talent show - Total eclipse of the heart, is her favorite.

Ive got So Far Away and Blue Bayou on the short list because neither one is about - well you know - but I am looking for songs with appropriate lyrics or at least close. She also love the song Sara, but for reasons that are obvious, that one is not going to work. Her name is Rhiannon and unfortunately that one wont work either.

Any Ideas?

How'd that work out for your daughter? I'd suggest "These boots were made for walking" but of course without Nancy Sinatra's mini-dress...

Good singer, really enjoyed it!

For me this is the best version

Ode to a Preasher Man ?

Wow, Go Go Boots! I had a pair of those in elementary school.

The only one that could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.......

Sarah Connor blows them all away on the song my beautiful blonde is so hot and so talented she makes the oldies look just like that oldies Sarah Connor rules on Son of a Preacher Man

Why am I not surprised that Bobby Gentry doing this song would have a funky feel to it!  And I can't recall ever knowing she did a version of this. Great!

i much prefer this to the original version.

How well I remember
The look that was in his eyes
Stealin' kisses from me on the sly
Takin' time to make time
Tellin' me that he's all mine
Learnin' from each other's knowin'
Lookin' to see how much we've grown and

Fiction meets real life.

pretty good, seems, like the girl singing song, gotta go with Sarah Connor version

Awesome you the best

The chrome was thick and the women straight back in the good old USA.

She honored Dusty Springfield singing this song so wonderfully.

Fun lady... points and measures for sure, but fun.

What a sexy woman!

Aretha could do it justice! All different styles. Classic Dusty!!!

Nobody can touch Mavis Staples. Nobody

These gals sure could pull at your strings.

she is brill But simply Dusty's

Bobbie Gentry is a Mississippi southern belle of the same Portuguese lineage as me. She is my all-time favorite female vocalist.

Pulp Fiction, anyone?

I like the way she's sitting on the album cover

like c and w

David Knudsen i liked beating off with you and swimming naked in the pool where did you go? My love. We had a 'Quasi' gay relationship.

Love this song. Billy ray was preachers son . Love this. Being good isn't always easy . How true . But love Bobbie voice.. 🎶🎶❤️❤️❤️

Well said Vreeland

Song was first offered to Aretha who turned it down. Then Dusty recorded it. Then Aretha recorded it as an album track. At some point the Honey Cone did a version for one of their albums. I think it would be cool for a male singer to sing this as "I'm the son of a preacher man"! Maybe I should do it & have a huge country hit with it. LOL!

Bobbie's version is cool too! Back when women could sing!

pretty woman

This song was sampled on a Dr. Pepper commercial!

I love my 70s .. I was a kid then

gary stackhouse yes but where /what is the good stuff , the quality material , the stuff that will stand the test of Time and be remembered or referenced to when held up to the other eras or materials and truly be called good or quality out there Today . {or last 30 + years}?

Beautiful and talented, Mississippi native of Portuguese descent, Bobbie Gentry. I miss you babe.

wtf is between her legs

Classic! Thanks!

still love it after all these years 60

It's the other way around. She sang it first.

Springfield - Sept '68
Gentry - Aug '69

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within !!*

classy w/ classy sexy!

talented lady (a real looker too!)

Its funny I grew up listening to her sing this never realizing others had done it before her to me she does it best

<3 <3 <3

I'll be down in three shakes of a lamb's tail....Pulp Fiction

In my opinion Dusty's classic version is best. Bobbie did it in her own style. Unlike many other artists today who all want to sound alike. If all the haters out there think you can do better, prove it! Get your ass on stage & sing it instead of judging it.

Aretha.

Aretha? not this time.

+joe rich, just thought i'd let you know i am in full agreement with your comment. it was the way of the world of music for musicians/singers to take the works they liked and as they say put their spin on it. but, i hope that one day music will return to its roots because there are only so many different spins out there and let's face it computer driven music lack the warmth of the human voice. with regards to the phrasing of this version i do hear only a slight varience between dusty and bobbie. given they come from different parts of the world it was surprising the similarities.
later man, sld 👸 the 📒 pad 🏡

I love the way Bobby Centry says "walk'in". I would have liked to go walk'in with Bobby.

I love the way Billy Ray would say let's go for a walk.

believe dat

Me too!!!!